Ethlabs has withdrawn its Quick Slots proposal from the Hegota upgrade to accelerate protections against quantum computing and artificial intelligence. Its pqai27 roadmap aims to make Ethereum’s infrastructure, user accounts, and authentication mechanisms more resilient by 2027. The first phase, pqai-ready, would introduce post-quantum cryptography at the consensus layer and enable account migration, while pqai-scaled would restore full performance with quantum-resistant transactions and data availability. Ethlabs is keeping framed transactions, EIP-8141, which could support signatures designed to withstand quantum attacks, but says FOCIL should proceed only if it does not disrupt the security timeline. The deadline is earlier than the Ethereum Foundation’s target of December 2029, although no current quantum computer can break Ethereum’s security.
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